How?
This is a post I wrote from Nov. 2020 (with a few update edits)
…you know when you're driving in your car and you hear one of those emergency alerts on the radio, the long tone....folllowed by a voice saying...this is a required monthly test of the Emergency Broadcast system. Well - I was driving the other day and herard the tone, and it went on forever... and I started to get scared. finally the familiar voice .. this is just a test. my breathing went back to normal, but then I began to wonder. when was the last time I got scared when I heard that tone? I'm old enough to remember the drills in elementary school. but - we live in a world now where everything is scary. it's sad. I'm scared of everything now. I want us all to get along. I want to go out and live again and not be afraid of the viruse, of violence, of everything.
I wish we could all remember -
Our Shared values define us more than our differences. and acknowledging those shared values can see us through our challenges today if we have the wisdom to trust in them again"
John McCain
“ A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.”
― Robert Frost